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Mississippi Mermaid (Widescreen)

Catherine Deneuve (Actor), Jean-Paul Belmondo (Actor), François Truffaut (Director) | Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: DVD
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Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as the owner of a cigarette factory on an African island, and a single man who advertises for a wife and, voilà, gets Catherine Deneuve. Problem is, however, she isn't quite what she seems in this 1969 drama by François Truffaut, taken from a Cornell Woolrich novel called Waltz into Darkness. Suspicions lead to deception and deception to murder, and along the way Belmondo's character, despite everything, continues to fall in love with his enigmatic prize, which is really the point of the film: the protagonist, almost as if he were willing himself into a noir myth, seems determined to fall under the spell of a romantic delusion. A fine effort by Truffaut that is the best of his mid-period pulpy, suspense films (along with The Bride Wore Black and Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me). --Tom Keogh

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Modernisé et francisé, le beau roman de l'écrivain américain William Irish a inspiré à François Truffaut l'un de ses films les plus atypiques, au point de dérouter un certain nombre de ses admirateurs. Pourtant, ce thriller étrange et romantique possède une indéniable poésie, fondée sur la folle passion amoureuse qui unit Jean-Paul Belmondo à une Catherine Deneuve plus mystérieuse et plus troublante que jamais ; et soulignée par un superbe accompagnement musical d'Antoine Duhamel. C'est cette poésie qui en faisait significativement l'un des films préférés de Léo Malet. On peut donc considérer qu'il s'agit là de l'une des œuvres les plus personnelles de Truffaut, ne serait-ce que parce que le cinéaste en a écrit seul le scénario et les dialogues, contrairement à son habitude. --Michel Marmin

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2.0 out of 5 stars horrible editing, acting, script and directing, Oct 12 2002
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justareader (yorba linda, ca United States) - See all my reviews
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After watching 2/3 of this movie, I finally decided to drop it. The slant-eyed Paul Belmondo is the worst French actor I've ever seen. No talent at all. You better try the copycatting new "Original Sin" to see how good Bandaras(?) is. And the storyline is also better than this old one. The young French Actress was not yet fully developed with just cardboard like acting too.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars DVD-production disaster, Jan 3 2003
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This review is from: Mississippi Mermaid (Widescreen) (DVD)
The story is entertaining enough, but there is not much joy from viewing this DVD. The problem is that the folks producing it apparently were trying to win the contest for the DVD having the world's squattest image. It is EXTREMELY letterboxed WITHIN a 16:9 widescreen format. Even your zoom function won't help you, because the producers moved the subtitles into the black-bar region (and the subtitles are about 2/3 the height of the image itself. The movie becomes simply uninvolving when you see low-resolution images on a thin ribbon across the screen.
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2.0 out of 5 stars DVD-production disaster, Jan 3 2003
By A Customer
This review is from: Mississippi Mermaid (Widescreen) (DVD)
The story is entertaining enough, but there is not much joy from viewing this DVD. The problem is that the folks producing it apparently were trying to win the contest for the DVD having the world's squattest image. It is EXTREMELY letterboxed WITHIN a 16:9 widescreen format. Even your zoom function won't help you, because the producers moved the subtitles into the black-bar region (and the subtitles are about 2/3 the height of the image itself. The movie becomes simply uninvolving when you see low-resolution images on a thin ribbon across the screen.
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